BEYOND THE CURVE.
by Abe, Kobo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 4770014651
- ISBN 13
- 9784770014658
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Tokyo:: Kodansha, , (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. His first collection of short fiction, one which confirms his reputation as one of Japan's most significant modern writers. The stories - often surrealistic - start from the same point: a seemingly innocuous act plunges an ordinary individual into extraordinary, often nightmarish circumstances that lead him to question his identity or his sanity. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 247 pp.
Synopsis
Collection of literary sf, the first collection of Abe’s short fiction, translated from the Japanese (Kābu no mukō) by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57867
- Title
- BEYOND THE CURVE.
- Author
- Abe, Kobo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 4770014651
- ISBN 13
- 9784770014658
- Publisher
- Kodansha,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Tokyo:
- Date Published
- (1991.)
- Keywords
- short stories, surrealism, literature in translation, japan,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian and Asian American;
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